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Event ID:6008 A Win2K Bug

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by digital_cow 1 view

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The previous system shutdown at hh:mm:ss AM on mm/dd/yyyy was unexpected.

Since we upgraded our server to Windows 2000 Advance Server, I had been getting this system error, which triggers to restart my server and It is making me frustrated every day because lot of autorun programs must be running inorder for other operation to move on, but if my primary server is down it will be a headache to me. I made it up tha all my autorun programs in the start up menu but it(autorun programs) wont be running until the system administrator had logged in.

SC.EXE could be a solution to this: A program used to remotely create service for windows 2000 server but it is not availalbe in my sight. May be you or anybody can provide me that sc.exe.

Also i inquired with microsoft knowledge base and followed their instruction in fixing this Event ID: 6008, still it does not work.
May be you can help..

digital

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by ghstinshll

I sure hope you really didn't upgrade your server... Everyone should know that in order to truly upgrade to Advanced Server (or any 2k server for tha tmatter) you need to do full backups of your data, then build the server from scratch, and then place your data back on the new server, with clean partitions, etc... This is more work, but is much more likely to get you the 99.99% uptime that MS suggests.

by digital_cow

Try to look forward the scenario, no time to look backwards.

How do you know that i did not made my back up? how are you sure about that?

If you are not familiar with the problem just stick down.

by timwalsh

Event ID 6008 is not an error message, nor is it a bug, nor does it have anything to do with restarting your system.

This is a warning message that is placed in your system log to notify you that your system had previously shutdown unexpectedly.It is placed in the log as your system is restarting. This warning will placed in the log whether you had a serious bug that crashed your system or whether somebody accidently pulled the power cord out of the wall. It merely notifies you that the system was not shut down properly.

You need to look at event log entries prior to the Event ID 6008 entries to try and determine what is going on.

SC.exe is part of the Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit.

Figure out what the primary problem is (why is your server crashing) and solve it. Then you autorun programs won't be an issue.

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